How to know running vcentre us appliance or windows server.

Use below two command in powershell to determine running on Appliance or Window 

$server = Connect-VIServer -Server 192.168.x.x

$Server.ExtensionData.Content.about

It will tell in OS Type, if it is Linux-64, yes it definitely appliance. If not, yes Window 👍

Get Vcentre Install State

Get the vmdk size via script..

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction ignore -Confirm:$False

 

#Connect to the VCenter server